The United Railroad Car Company and Polymetal have signed an agreement on the delivery of 55 dump cars until the end of June 2020. The cars will be delivered to Varvarinskoye and will be used on the territory of Kazakhstan. Varvarinskoye is the first Polymetal enterprise in Kazakhstan with the capacity to process 4.2 million…
DetailsVIZ-Stal is switching to operating according to a new GOST 32482-2013 “Cold-rolled sheet of electric steel for transformers. Technical conditions”. The new standard covers all the EAEU countries. The new conditions fully agree with the previous GOST R 53934-2010 cancelled on August 1 by the Federal Agency on technical regulation and metrology. VIZ-Stal will accept…
DetailsIn July Russia exported 1.6 thousand tons of raw chromium, up by 1% MoM and by 23% YoY. Deliveries to the US grew by 30%, to 512 tons, while to the Netherlands dropped by 33%, to 740 tons. In January-July exports totaled 10.8 thousand tons, down by 7.5% YoY. In monetary terms since the start…
DetailsIn July Russia exported 1.9 thousand tons of ferrotitanium, up by 46% MoM and by 64.3% YoY. Exports to the Netherlands grew by 50%, to 1.3 thousand tons, and to China – by 20%, to 263 tons. In January-July the exports totaled 11.1 thousand tons, up by 23.2% YoY. In monetary terms since the start…
DetailsUp to 30 miners have gone to the mine in Georgia’s western Tkibuli municipality and have plans to stay there until their employer gives them and others their salaries and the government decides on the fate of mines. Work has been suspended in the Mindeli and Dzidziguri mines of Tkibuli since July 16, 2018 after…
DetailsThe Parliament of Kyrgyzstan will submit the Minamata Convention for public discussion in the near future, member of the Parliament Rada Tumanbaeva reported. According to her, by joining the Minamata Convention, Kyrgyzstan will refuse to manufacture, export and import a number of mercury-containing products. “We do not have laws governing mercury-containing products. The Ministry of…
DetailsLipetskcement, a part of Eurocement Group, has started supplying CEM I 42.5 H cement to NLMK to make briquettes of the blast furnace manufacture waste. The technique allows receiving raw materials of secondary products resulting from the manufacture of pig iron and coke, by replacing iron ore and coal raw materials. Supply volumes are estimated…
DetailsIn July Russia imported 395.5 tons of raw copper, up by 42% MoM and by 589.4% YoY. All the copper came from Kazakhstan. In 7 months imports totaled 1.3 thousand tons, down by 21.6% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year the imports have decreased by 12.6%. Import prices have remained at…
DetailsTUV SUD auditors have for the second time this year visited Krasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works. The experts have inspected the manufacturing technology and the product quality, as the company intends to export to European markets. The audit for the correspondence to PED 2014/68/EU, AD 2000 Merkblatt, etc. has been carried out over 4…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has produced the 500-millionth ton of steel. The first steel was received at 1:40 on May 1, 1958, in open-hearth furnace shop. Since then the shop has produced over 195 million tons of steel. CherMK no longer has the open-hearth furnace manufacture. The first electric arc steel was produced in…
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